Jones Stephenmoses

• PMP Certified Professional, with more than 16 years of experience in IT sector and 6 plus  years of relevant Project management experience. 
• Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist, with a strong Agile background. Extensive skills in implementing Agile / Scrum methodology guiding Scrum Project Teams to achieve a high level of performance 
• Technical Manager with hands on expertise on end-to-end execution of project life cycle (both Waterfall and Agile), with attention to detail
• Rich experience in Project Management, encompassing Quality Assurance, Team Management, Resource Management, Risk management, vendor management, Effort Estimation (sequencing activities and using top-down, bottom-up and other estimation techniques), Cost Estimation, and Change Management 
• Worked closely with C-Level Executives and Senior Management, coordinating RFP for bidding projects
• Over 6 years of onsite exposure working in USA and 9 months of onsite exposure working in Canada 
• Successfully worked on over 12 projects and managed 6 diverse projects in Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Credit Card & Automotive domains 
• Catered to prestigious clientele like JPMorgan Chase, Cigna, Centene Corporation, First Data Corporation, Australia New Zealand Bank, Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago, and Bank of New York Mellon 

Work History: 

Idea Helix Inc 

Senior Project Manager | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada                         (Apr 2022  to Dec 2022) 

• Managed two Angular UI teams and also played the role of Technical Project Manager to track and monitor the project delivery across five Scrum teams 
• Served as Liaison for offshore and onsite teams maintaining effective communication channels
• Used Azure DevOps to track day-to-day, weekly progress of the Scrum teams 
• Hosted leadership calls and steering committee meetings, to provide senior management with updates on the progress of the project. Highlighted the risks, issues, dependencies and the mitigation plans, including plans for a path to Green. 
• Created detailed Project Documentation using Confluence
• Collaborate and negotiate with different teams suggesting process improvement, better project scheduling and business processes
• Received positive feedback on UX and UI delivery, and UX/UI design, leading to increased customer satisfaction and better user experience
• Accountable for entire UI implementation, providing strategic direction.
• Worked with the technical architect for solution design
• Adapted reporting styles catering to various levels of stakeholders and their expectations
• Logged time using Clarity PPM tool
• Strived to honor contractual SLA agreements
• Assisted in smooth transition over an Organizational change

Sirahu Technologies 

Senior Project Manager | Chennai, India                                                          (Jun 2019 to Apr 2022) 

• Managed two Scrum Teams (Angular Java UI and Backend API Teams) 
• Developed project plans including objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding & staffing 
• Ensured adherence to budget, schedule and project scope 
• Prepared project status reports by collecting, analysing and summarizing information and trends 
• Delegated administrative tasks to project personnel, coordinated recruitment of project personnel as per project needs and followed-up where needed
• Monitored project milestones and deliverables; negotiating in consultation with project stakeholders on resources or materials (resource allocation based on project needs)
• Worked to supervise the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback (goal setting and review)
• Consistent in performing risk assessments to develop response strategies; updating stakeholders with the project health and status 
• Worked to facilitate Scrum Ceremonies; coaching the team on Agile values, best practices (such as Test-driven development) and principles 
• Used JIRA as project management software to follow-up on project delivery and to track the workflow of User stories. 
• Ensured effective Business stakeholders engagement (sponsor) understanding the logistics involved with the vendor – client relationship
• Tasked to manage budgets and forecasting for the year
• Set up process automation on redundant tasks

Sai Technologies LLC 

Senior Scrum Master | Memphis, Tennessee                                                   (Sep 2018 to Feb 2019) 

• Managed two Scrum Teams (DevOps and DBA) for the client, American Home Shield 
• Facilitated Sprint Ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Meeting, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review; focused in achieving the sprint goal and overall business objective. Identified opportunities to improve and took action on those.
• Mentored and coached the team on Agile principles and culture 
• Aligned with the Product Owner for requirements of the Sprint, in the prioritization of Product Backlog 
• Monitored JIRA Board daily for steady movement of cards 
• Worked with the Scrum team to get the Definition of Ready, Definition of Done defined and to have the team work towards it. 
• Worked with DevOps on CI/CD implementation and worked towards continuous improvement Sprint on Sprint
• Streamlined Production deployment for various release cycles 
• Worked to provide direction to the teams as they were in the midst of an acquisition and the project lacked Organization

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp 

Associate - Projects | St. Louis, Missouri                                                   (Feb 2013 to Sep 2018) 

• Worked on multiple projects for different clients like JPMorgan Chase, Cigna and Centene Corporation 
• Performed end-to-end test to manage the application under test; prepared project plan and strategy 
• Steered risk analysis (risk assessment, risk mitigation and other mitigation strategies), gap analysis, impact analysis, root cause analysis and overall Business analysis of the requirements 
• Managed QA Teams to align with the prod timeline; assisted in User acceptance Testing 
• Prepared weekly, end of Sprint and monthly reports with dashboards for easy visualization for the senior management team

Cognizant Technology solutions 

Associate  - Projects |  Chennai, India                                                      (Mar 2010 to Feb 2013) 

• Designed test plans, scenarios, test cases and test evidence documents 
• Documented software defects, using a bug tracking system and reported defects to software developers
• Provided feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and functionality
• Worked to coordinate user or third-party testing; conducted historical analyses of test results 
• Rendered technical support as needed ensuring operational readiness

Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Limited 

Software Engineer |  Chennai, India                                                           (Aug 2006 to Mar 2010) 

• Tested Banking applications (Compliance and Credit Cards) using Mainframe 
• Supported Production maintenance group for North American Automotive sector 

Education: 

Maharashtra Institute of Technology School of Distance Education         (Jun 2020 to Feb 2022) 

Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management 

Graduated with a CGPA of 9.89 |  Grade: A+ 

Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology                                  (Aug 2002 - May 2006) 

Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics & Communications Engineering)   

Graduated with 78% (First Class) | Grade: A+